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William S. Burroughs class on creative reading , part 1.

by: Burroughs, William S.

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1979-08-08 00:00:00

Item Size: 1.5G

First half of a William S. Burroughs lecture on Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and A Short Trip Home, and Stephen King's The Shining. Burroughs also discusses exercises for increasing awareness, books as mental film, codes of conduct, heroes, and the film of Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch. (Continues on 79p040.) Keywords: beat movement, experimental literature, consciousness in literature